Waterboarding--now officially endorsed by the Vice President of the United States (whether his lackeys lie about it or not)--is, in fact, torture. Lederman and Balkin explain in detail. I also like Sully going all rhetorically McArdle on Hugh Hewitt:I do not make an argument in...
Author: Scott Lemieux
K-Lo's attempts to convince herself that Rick Santorum can win are pretty sad. Still--particularly since she seems to realize its futility on some level--I don't think that she can hold.
Erik identifies the most objectionable thing offered up by a Hitchens in his New Yorker profile; he's become pathetic enough that it's hard to dislike him entirely. I like Mimi.
As much as I hate to concede any point to Tim McCarver...I knew Chris Duncan was a bad outfielder, but I didn't know that he made Pete Incaviglia look like Roberto Clemente. (And they're calling the Casey fly a double? There's home cooking, and then...
Shorter Verbatim Camille Paglia: "I was bitterly disappointed after voting for Ralph Nader that he didn't devote himself to helping build a strong third party in this country." Paglia was.
I have a post up at TAPPED about the total ban on abortions in Nicaragua. As a follow-up, Liza Sabater provides valuable cultural context.
George Allen and Matt Drudge: world-class wankers. See also Steve on the contemporaneous conservative reactions to Webb's novel. Meanwhile, Patterico trots out the "but Democrats would hypothetically be doing the same thing, so they're equally guilty, and remember that the obscure crank who tried to...
Tom Maguire objects to my suggestion that objections to the Supreme Court of New Jersey 's recent decision from (nominal) supporters of civil unions are, at bottom, substantive rather than.
Ann Althouse claims that yesterday's civil unions ruling by the Supreme Court of New Jersey is an example of "judges who get out in front of what the majority wants.".
Yglesias has cherry-picked the best bit from this lunatic-even-by-Victor-Davis-Hanson-standards post at the Corner ("we were lectured daily about the intricacies of Vietnamese, Russian, and Chinese Communists — their rivalries, hatreds, and quite separate aims-as they combined to defeat the United States, and trumped their own...
In the wake of the decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey that same-sex couples are entitled to the same benefits as heterosexual married couples (although not necessarily under.
This account of Ackerman leaving TNR (ht Atrios) contains a couple interesting things (in addition to Ackerman being fired for being too shrill.) First, Foer describes what Lee Siegel (who.